Descripción
| Sumario: | The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Beyond the Border seeks to explain this phenomenon and analyze how the German-Jewish legacy has continuingly permeated wider modes of Western thought and sensibility, and why these emigres occupy an increasingly iconic place in contemporary society. Steven Aschheim traces the odyssey of a fascinating group of German-speaking Zionists -- among them Martin Buber and Hans Kohn -- who recognized the moral dilemmas of Jewish settlement in pre-Israel Palestine and sought a binationalist solution to the Arab-Israel conflict. He explores how German-Jewish emigre historians like Fritz Stern and George Mosse created a new kind of cultural history written against the background of their exile from Nazi Germany and in implicit tension with postwar German social historians. And finally, he examines the reasons behind the remarkable contemporary canonization of these Weimar intellectuals -- from Arendt to Strauss -- within Western academic and cultural life
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| Notas: | "This book is based upon, and is an elaboration of, the Joseph and Eda Pell Lectures that I delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, in October 2004" |
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| Descripción Física: | XI, 194 p. ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices |
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| ISBN: | 9780691122236 |
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